Dirt: Bored Ape Universe

The arrival of blockchains over the past decade created a new option for impatient VCs. Companies in the Web 2.0 era produced only goods and services, whose value was always denominated in dollars or other national currencies. But companies in the web3 era offer a third product — tokens — and the value of those tokens is far less tethered to realit... See more

Admittedly, I thought a bunch of the ICOs in 2017 were a joke, I don't believe that many of the NFTs today will hold value, I don't find the asset price increases of meme images intellectually interesting, I think a lot of these “communities” are overrated, and despite being a beneficiary financially of this movement, I am a bit mindblown/bothered ... See more

BAYC launched to the public on April 23, 2021 with little fanfare. The pre-sale launch announcement in Discord was met with almost zero reactions. By the end of the week, only a few hundred apes had been minted from